Roots in the Air: New & Selected PoemsCopper Canyon Press, 1996 - 204 pages |
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Page 79
... heavy under its weight it's the same skin wrinkled on the back of hills grey in the early morning on the Jericho Road . 80 | The brain scooped out of it lets in Looking at Henry Moore's Elephant Skull Etchings in Jerusalem During the War.
... heavy under its weight it's the same skin wrinkled on the back of hills grey in the early morning on the Jericho Road . 80 | The brain scooped out of it lets in Looking at Henry Moore's Elephant Skull Etchings in Jerusalem During the War.
Page 84
... elephant inside me crowding me out he sees Jerusalem through my eyes my skin is stretched tight over the elephant's skin his wrinkles begin to break through I taste the coarse hairs crowding the back of my mouth I fall down gagging over ...
... elephant inside me crowding me out he sees Jerusalem through my eyes my skin is stretched tight over the elephant's skin his wrinkles begin to break through I taste the coarse hairs crowding the back of my mouth I fall down gagging over ...
Page 168
... elephant smiling with my mouth closed , clutching the bar that has just been fastened across the box I'm caged in . The ground seems farther than it should be . The beggars can't reach us . The elephant lifts one wrinkled leg and puts ...
... elephant smiling with my mouth closed , clutching the bar that has just been fastened across the box I'm caged in . The ground seems farther than it should be . The beggars can't reach us . The elephant lifts one wrinkled leg and puts ...
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